​Help Us Outfit the Next Generation of Adventurers

Our partners who are a part of the LHX2017 trip are working hard to get ready for thier adventure as well as provide you the outdoor community at large some amazing offers on new gear while helping Gear Forward in the process. Check out these offers from these amazing brands!

In addition to these deals LHX crew member Hiker Steve will be donating $0.25 for every “Summit Selfie” that is submitted to his site from now until April. How simple is this? You probably take tons of pics everyday! Send one to Steve and help Gear Forward at the same time. Want more of an incentive to send Steve your pic? Several people have offered to match his donation to Gear Forward if he reachs $100.00. If you send a pic to Steve you also will be entered into a contest to win a hammock package.

Another great offer is from our Board Member Mr. Adam Nutting aka HikingTheTrail. Adam will be donating $5 out of his own pocket every time that someone uses the LHX2017 discount code to purchase gear on the Teton Sports website. Talk about a win, win! You purchase some amazing gear from Teton Sports at a discount and Gear Forward gets funds to help us equip our next generation out outdoor adventurers. Shop Teton Gear Now!

Growing up in Scouts we had plenty of time to go camping, but in Tiger Cubs we did not do a lot of camping as a group. We might have gone on a couple overnights but I do not think there were many. We did use it for “Cub Weekend” at Camp Geiger our local Boy Scout camp for one night.

I remember the first tent my parents purchased for the family. It was a normal family tent. It was grey in color had windows that you could unzip and we mostly pitched it in the backyard for “camping”. I am sure my first campout ended up with everyone back in the basement before the sun came up the next morning.

That tent was a spaceship, a fort, a jail, just a tent on occasion, and so many other fantastic things the imagination of a 6 year old could dream up. To this day when I smell that musty dusty old tent smell I am instantly transported back to my parents back yard to that tent.

As the years progressed I continued to camp and use either the Troop’s tents or we had switched to smaller two or three person tents for scout outings. Without my first tent I would not have fell in love with listening to the crickets chirp on a muggy hot Missouri nights, falling asleep to the locusts (cicadas) buzzing, and telling stories around the campfire. ​